{"id":3401,"date":"2016-01-04T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:45:10","slug":"january-22-2016-will-be-the-first-annual-trans-prisoner-day-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2016\/01\/04\/january-22-2016-will-be-the-first-annual-trans-prisoner-day-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"January 22, 2016 will be the first annual Trans Prisoner Day of Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mariusart1\"<\/a>January 22, 2016 will be the first International Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity.\u00a0 If you are planning a letter writing event for trans prisoners, feel free to order a stack of postcards featuring paintings by Marius.\u00a0 This series was specifically designed by Marius and friends to be used for January 22nd. Orders can be made by writing to doriszine(at)yahoo(dot)com<\/p>\n

This postcard features Persephone Smith, a counselor at the Ali Forney Center<\/a> in Brooklyn, NY.\u00a0 The Ali Forney Center provides emergency housing for LGBTQ youth.<\/p>\n

An international day of action in solidarity with trans prisoners.<\/h3>\n

This is a call to action against the system which seeks to erase our very existence. The survival of trans and other sex and gender minority people is not a quaint<\/p>\n

conversation about awareness, but a struggle for us to live in a world so determined to marginalize, dehumanise, and criminalise us \u2013 especially trans women, and especially Black, brown, and indigenous trans people.<\/p>\n

We are discriminated against in every area of society including housing, healthcare, employment. Our survival is often precarious and many of us survive by work which is also criminalised \u2013 making us even more of a target for police harassment and the crime of \u201cWalking While Trans\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

Once incarcerated, trans people face humiliation, physical and sexual abuse, denial of medical needs, and legal reprisals. Many transgender people are placed in solitary confinement for months or years, simply for being trans. Trans women are usually placed in men\u2019s prisons, where there is a massive increased risk of experiencing sexual violence.<\/p>\n

Just as our lives are violently repressed on the outside, trans people experience extreme suffering and death within the walls of jails, prisons, youth facilities, and immigrant detention centers.<\/p>\n

Trans Prisoner Day of Action on January 22nd<\/sup> is a day to acknowledge the experiences of trans and other sex and gender-minority prisoners. It\u2019s about collaboration. It is about forging new relationships and dismantling the isolation of prison. It\u2019s about resistance to state violence. It\u2019s about solidarity between those who experience the violence of the system first hand and those for whom the state hasn\u2019t come yet.<\/p>\n

Many prisoner support and prison abolition groups around the world do so much excellent work writing letters to prisoners, educating the public with \u00a0letters to editors and articles for the media, holding protests and marches, organizing queer communities to phone in and demand that trans prisoners be treated with respect and dignity, calling for an end to incarceration. Trans Prisoner Day of Action aims to make this work accessible to all who are in support \u2013 we encourage you to hold vigils for those in our communities who have been taken by State violence, to hold an event, host speakers, screen films, invite presentations, and hold workshops to spread the word on the experience of trans prisoners, share knowledge, and build strategies of resistance. Have dance parties and raise funds for people and groups already doing amazing work. Take action. Let\u2019s join together and show our conviction in supporting each other and ending prisons once and for all.<\/p>\n

This project was first imagined by Marius Mason, a trans prisoner in Texas, USA. Since then, through his friends and supporters, an international collective of people both inside and outside of prison walls have come together<\/p>\n

to make Trans Prisoner Day of Action a reality. We are trans and non-trans folks and friends and supporters. We join a long tradition of trans and queer people resisting state violence.<\/p>\n

Join with us in the struggle for freedom.<\/p>\n

To learn more visit: transprisoners.net<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 22, 2016 will be the first International Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity.\u00a0 If you are planning a letter writing event for trans prisoners, feel free to order a stack of postcards featuring paintings by Marius.\u00a0 This series was specifically designed by Marius and friends to be used for January 22nd. Orders can … <\/p>\n

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